Bernardo Ruiz

For the documentary filmmaker, see Bernardo Ruiz (filmmaker).
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Ruiz and the second or maternal family name is Navarrete.

Bernardo Ruiz
Ruiz at the 1954 Tour de France
Personal information
Born(1925-01-08)8 January 1925
Orihuela, Spain
Died14 August 2025(2025-08-14) (aged 100)
Orihuela, Spain
Team information
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider typeAll-rounder
Major wins
Grand Tours
Tour de France
2 individual stages (1951)
Giro d'Italia
1 individual stage (1955)
Vuelta a España
General classification (1948)
Mountains classification (1948)
4 individual stages (1948, 1950)

Stage races

Volta a Catalunya (1945)

One-day races and Classics

National Road Race Championship (1946, 1948, 1951)

Bernardo Ruiz Navarrete (Spanish: [beɾˈnaɾðo ˈrwiθ naβaˈrete]; 8 January 1925 – 14 August 2025) was a Spanish professional road bicycle racer who won the overall and climbers competition at the 1948 Vuelta a España. He went on to become the first Spaniard to take two wins in a single edition of the Tour de France in 1951, the first to finish on the overall podium at the Tour the following year, and the first to win a stage of the Giro d'Italia in 1955.

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